Quotes about Reputation

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great.

Once you became president, people's perceptions of you—even the perceptions of those who knew you best—were inevitably shaped by the media.

You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.

One of the most important commitments in a family or a business is never to bad-mouth. Always be loyal to those who are absent, if you want to retain those who are present

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are a diminution to his.

You get about 20 people in the audience calling you a cheat. It hurts your feelings.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.